scholarly journals A 65nm CMOS 60 GHz Class F-E Power Amplifier for WPAN Applications

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
N. Deltimple ◽  
S. Dréan ◽  
E. Kerhervé ◽  
B. Martineau ◽  
D. Belot

This work presents a two-stage 60 GHz Power Amplifier designed in a 65nm CMOS technology dedicated to low cost Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) applications. In order to provide a high efficiency operation, the PA is based on a Class E power stage. A Class F driver stage is also designed to provide a square waveform signal to the Class-E power stage. To realize the output networks of both driver and power stage at 60 GHz, distributed elements are used instead of lumped elements. The post-layout simulation results show a saturated output power of 15 dBm with a peak PAE of 26% at 60 GHz. It achieves a gain of 15dB at 60 GHz.

2015 ◽  
Vol E98.C (4) ◽  
pp. 377-379
Author(s):  
Jonggyun LIM ◽  
Wonshil KANG ◽  
Kang-Yoon LEE ◽  
Hyunchul KU

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
M. Yousefi ◽  
D. Koozehkanani ◽  
H. Jangi ◽  
N. Nasirzadeh ◽  
J. Sobhi

Abstract A 400 MHz high efficiency transmitter for wireless medical application is presented in this paper. Transmitter architecture with high-energy efficiencies is proposed to achieve high data rate with low power consumption. In the on-off keying transmitters, the oscillator and power amplifier are turned off when the transmitter sends 0 data. The proposed class-e power amplifier has high efficiency for low level output power. The proposed on-off keying transmitter consumes 1.52 mw at -5 dBm output by 40 Mbps data rate and energy consumption 38 pJ/bit. The proposed transmitter has been designed in 0.18μm CMOS technology.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taufiq Alif Kurniawan ◽  
Toshihiko Yoshimasu

This paper presents a 2.5-GHz low-voltage, high-efficiency CMOS power amplifier (PA) IC in 0.18-µm CMOS technology. The combination of a dual-switching transistor (DST) and a third harmonic tuning technique is proposed. The DST effectively improves the gain at the saturation power region when the additional gain extension of the secondary switching transistor compensates for the gain compression of the primary one. To achieve high-efficiency performance, the third harmonic tuning circuit is connected in parallel to the output load. Therefore, the flattened drain current and voltage waveforms are generated, which in turn reduce the overlapping and the dc power consumption significantly. In addition, a 0.5-V back-gate voltage is applied to the primary switching transistor to realize the low-voltage operation. At 1 V of supply voltage, the proposed PA has achieved a power added efficiency (PAE) of 34.5% and a saturated output power of 10.1 dBm.


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